Covington Eviction Risk: Lower

Severe burden reaches 32%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The main counterweight is economic stress at 1/10.

Well under the midpoint, eviction-process difficulty reads 2.1/10. On the softer side, state political climate reads 2.3/10.

SNAP participation runs 5.4% against 15.2% nationally. Against the St. Tammany Parish average of 4.0, this tract reads safer for landlords by 1.0 points.

Food insecurity runs 8.5% against 17.8% nationally. Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.

Only 13% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 3.4/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here. Statewide the LA average is 4.4, so this tract runs 1.4 points cooler.

Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 2%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap. Average gross rent is $1,424, close to the Covington average.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.